Control Your Finances
Flemington, NJ. To obtain
financial security, you must be
able to take control of your money
instead of allowing it to control
you. The only way your money
situation will improve is to
improve your self-awareness.
Hard work alone does not obtain
financial security. It comes from
being an effective planner.
Rutgers Cooperative Extension
is offering a two-part money man
agement series to help you become
an efficient money manager. On
April 27, 7-9 p.m., Barbara
O’Neill, Extension Home Eco
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IYLVANI,
ERB& HENRY
EQUIPMENT INC.
New Berlinville, PA 19545
215-367-2169
LAPP S BARN EQUIPMENT
SALES A SERVICE
Gap. PA 17527
717-442-8134
SOLLENBERGER
SILOS CORP.
Chambersburg, PA 17201 rahn^MUIPMENT
717-264-9588 « BARN EQUIPMENT
Watsontown, PA 17777
717-538-9564
OR 717-743-4226
HARRY TROOP
Cochranvllle, PA 19335
nomist of Sussex County will con
duct a program called Cash Flow
101: Developing a Spending Plan
That Works.
On May 4, 7-9 p.m. Kathleen
Klotzbach of Hunterdon County
will present. Controlling Your
Finances: The Emotional Aspects
of Managing Money.
Both programs wilt be held at
the Extension Center, Route 31,
Flemington. Pre-registration is
required, the fee to attend both
courses is SS, to attend one course,
the fee is $3. For further informa
tion and registration, please call
788-1342.
SOMERSET BARN
EQUIPMENT
Somerset, PA 15501
814-448-8555
STAR SILOS
Mye^stown. PA 17067
717-866-8708
PRINGLES FEED
STORE. INC.
Greenville, PA 16125
412-588 7080
On Being a
Farm Wife
(and other
hazards) j
Joyce Bupp
Remember?
Remember what you were doing
last year this time?
Drying out endless pairs of sog
gy gloves and damp boots.
Scrounging around the stores for
Your Jamesway Dealer has loads of
information—including an in-depth
video—about Big Jim 8.U.C.5., the
Bottom Unloader Conversion System
by Jamesway. See how you can get
faster unloading, increased capacity,
better quality feed and reduced
maintenance in your steel, poured
concrete or concrete stave silo. You
can even tour a farm with a B.U.C.S,
installation at work. So call your
Jamesway Dealer now and get the
expert advice you need!
ONEGT SURGE SERVICE
Washington, PA 15301
412-222-0444
JAMES L. HOSTBTTER
McVeytown, PA 17051
717-890-6388
HOOVER EQUIPMENT
Tyrone, PA 16686
814-684-1777
WALNUT BARN
EQUIPMENT
Port Royal, PA
717-436-0420
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MARYLAND
GLADHILL
TRACTOR MART
Frederick. MD 21701
301-663-6060
MD A VA MILK
PRODUCERS ASSOC.
Frederick, MD 21701
301-663-6553
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GEORGE COLEMAN
Elmer, NJ 08318
600-358-8828
Lancaster Farming, Saturday. March 18, 1995-B9
what little ice-melting salt might
still be in stock somewhere.
Removing snow for the twenty
umpteenth time from your porch,
walks and driveways. Dreaming
of the first crocus.
Dream no more.
Our first crocus made its cheer
ful. yellow-gold appearance nearly
a month ago, poking up through a
mat of dead, brown, soggy maple
leaves. Since then, it has been
joined by sprightly little neighbors
garbed in bright-purple and pale
lavendar.
These tiny, chill-defying
blooms are planted just outside the
southwest comer of the green
house. That site was chosen speci
fically because it’s the wannest
spot in the yard and one we pass by
numerous time each day traveling
back and forth to the dairy bam.
So. we can’t miss those spirit
lifting, colorful blooms almost the
moment they spread their petals to
bask in the sunshine.
Not quite so far along, but thinking about it,
are the buds of the forsythia bushes. With
each day of lengthening light and wanning
temperatures, the tight, brown buds swell fat
ter with the promise of cascades of sunshiny
yellow stems and the tips turn green with the
push of new life.
One thick hedge of forsythia bushes had
outgrown its location, stretching high above
my head and shading out the strawberry bed
laid out nearby on a south-facing bank. Then,
The Fanner decided some trimming was in
order and judiciously pruned the forsythia
jungle with the chainsaw. Not recommended
by horticultural specialists, but effective. And
fast
Pussywillow buds likewise have grown fat
and full, covering the branches of our 30-plus
feet-tall “shrub or small tree” as one plant
identification book describes it Naturally, the
nicest branches for cutting to display in a vase
are all the way up in the top third of the “small
tree.”
Picking a bouquet with any size to it
becomes a ladder adventure. The adventure
part comes in because pussywillow branches
tend to be slender, very flexible, and grow
mostly straight up in the air - not the best prop
for a ladder. A brisk, March breeze sways in
the pussywillow branches as I study the tree’s
upper level, eyeballing the best spot to park
the top of the extension ladder.
Aftercareful consideration, I bag the ladder
idea and settle for a few short twigs of catkins
from just above my head. God put the nicest
branches at the top of the tree; common sense
says to just leave ’em there for His enjoyment.
Daffodils and early tulips already have
plentiful foliage pushed up out of the dark,
moist ground, awaiting the warmth of still
brighter sunshine. Daylilies, iris and last
year’s exuberant stand of horseradish like
wise poke tentative shoots up to test the
season.
And if all those aren’t convincing enough,
one good glance at Tiger, the affectionate kit
ten who moved into the bank barn last fall to
help with mouse patrol, should present the
final clinching evidence as to where the sea
son is heading.
Like the shrubbery buds. Tiger’s tummy is
swelling more every day. And when kittens
are on the way, Spring is generally waiting
close by to the delivery.
Welcome crocus. Welcome baby kittens.
Welcome, Spring!
B&B SPRAY PAINTING
SANDBLASTING
SPRAY - ROLL - BRUSH
Specializing In Buildings, .
Feed Mills - Roofs - Tanks -
Etc., Aerial Ladder Equip.
Stone - Barn - Restoration
574 Gibbon’s Rd.,
Bird-In-Hand, Pa.
Aniwerinf Service (717) 354-5561